5. Acceleread Lesson 4

The previous four posts summarized my activity up to the present.  This post and future ones will be current.

ACCELEREAD LESSON 4

In the fourth day of training with Acceleread, as always there are 5 parts, but this time the total time is only 8 minutes.

Part 1 is Word Flash.  This time the word chunks have become quite long.  I can't imagine how my peripheral vision will span across the page in such a way, but I believe it is possible.  There will be some degree of mental interpolation that may take over.  Most things linguistically can be determined from context, especially when the material is of a familiar kind.

Part 2 introduces Hopscotch in the Guided Training for the first time.  This part is only 1 minute.  Cartoon symbolic images of every sort (fruit, appliances, etc.) bounce back and forth on the periphery of the screen, left and right, top and bottom.  Interesting exercise.

Part 3 brings the last tool into primary use, Sight Stretcher, meant to train peripheral vision reading.  Numbers outside a circle expand periodically.

Part 4 is again Word Flash, followed by Diamond Highlighter for Part 5.

You can repeat lessons by clicking on the little map icon in the upper right of the iPad version, and upper left of the iPhone version in the Guided Course section.

GETTING STARTED WITH ACCELEREAD

There is a manual of sorts which comes with the app in the Library.  It expounds in more detail on what it introduced on startup.  It's a very interesting read!  I wish I had found it sooner.